China - Agricultural product safety and quality (English)

The government of China has made food safety a top priority in recent years and is taking clear actions to upgrade their food safety system. It passed the Law on Agricultural Product Quality and Safety in 2006 and the Law on Food Safety in 2009.The Jilin...  See More + The government of China has made food safety a top priority in recent years and is taking clear actions to upgrade their food safety system. It passed the Law on Agricultural Product Quality and Safety in 2006 and the Law on Food Safety in 2009.The Jilin Agriculture Product Quality and Safety Project is part of the national efforts to upgrade food safety infrastructure, procedures and capacity to implement these new national laws. The projects support the development of good agricultural practices for agricultural product quality and safety. This includes the upgrading of the agricultural product safety and quality testing, management, monitoring, and enforcement system in the agricultural commission, livestock bureau, and water resources bureau in Jilin province. The project will also finance research that identifies key areas of research that can be directly applied to improving agricultural product safety, and the demonstration models for safe agriculture supply chains.  See Less -